“Every single Monday was called ‘AI Monday,’” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could work only on AI. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only work on AI projects.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”
Did AI build that dogshit website of theirs too?
That website is really shit even by the low standards of most modern websites.
Does it load exceptionally slow for you too?
Looks ok without any JS.
looks best without a browser at all.
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let me spell it out for you: Why would I want to look at his website at all?
Got it, sorry.
https://ignitetech.ai/ it has to be like purposely bad I vibe code internal frontends and ive never had something look this bad
Wtf it just opened a video in full screen on iOS right away. When I closed it and wanted to scroll down I was suddenly dragging an icon. When tapping this icon it opens some „my personas“ dialog which I don’t even understand what it is supposed to be? What even is this shit ass site?
Edit: page title is „Home V2“ lol
Edit 2: Of course this site is made using Elementor, hence the bad performance and buggy layout.
That’s actually somewhat of a Safari bug.
Safari has this tendency of opening videos in full screen, if the video is natively embedded (not using a third party video player component), is set to auto play, and isn’t flagged specifically for not opening automatically in full screen (this is a Safari specific flag that no other browser requires as no other browser has this stupid default behaviour).
Definitely not great behavior but considering Safari makes up a bunch of their users, they should have really added the playsinline attribute to the video to prevent this. But since this site is made using a pretty crappy site builder, they probably cannot change this until Elementor fixes this bug.
Previously I added to my routine, to ask two stupid queries of ai every day, because that was the metric we were judged on. I can get that out of the way quickly, and get to my work.
Now we have to use a new ai tool that has a lot more telemetry, thanks Microsoft. Unfortunately I don’t know what metric they are using and the tool spies on everything. I can’t even just not use the ai features because the tool is horrible
Use it as a dumb worklog sometimes. Tell it what you were already gonna do and ask if it would do the same. It’s almost always gonna agree. Then just ignore it. If somebody AI obsessed pulls out the full logs they’re gonna see you’re doing what the AI said was good. (basically Inception, lol)
The basic stats I can see are the prompt count, number of active days, and last active date. By default reports are anonymised but that can be turned off by the admin.
Iirc paid licenses let you do data purview searches on prompts. But I can’t see that in my one as we only use the basic.
Ignitetech or Initech
ignitiontech, where they ignited thier own company to the ground.
InnerChoad
ineptech
InSpiteTech
that writer’s name is all you need to know. always look at the writer’s name and their previous work to identify industry shills
“They ruthlessly cut costs, R&D, and employee benefits and then replace existing employees with overseas contractors. Innovation and growth take a back seat to sheer profitability.”
This is the operating manual that explains why IgniteTech’s much-publicized AI purge feels more like a familiar private-equity play.
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IgniteTech is owned by ESW. For anyone who’s watched the ESW orbit, that vagueness is not accidental. ESW’s playbook, summarized in a long explanatory dossier that has circulated inside the industry, is blunt: buy distressed software, strip costs, move work to an hourly contractor model through a unit like Crossover (which has been described in Forbes as a “global software sweatshop”), and squeeze recurring revenue out of an existing customer base rather than invest in new products.Yeah this is called AI washing. Basically firing people, outsourcing all the jobs, stripping a company till there is nothing left. The goal is to maximize profits till the company is basically dead and then sell the husk. Because it’s done under the AI label, customers and other interested parties see it as being innovative and not just money grabbing.
Selling artificial intelligence to natural idiots.
Private Equity is finding it increasingly difficult to offload the companies they have taken over.
With some luck, this dickhead will go broke.
i think whatever entities likely bought out these “bankrupted” companies arnt doing anymore, or trusting the PE firms.
So they could have held paint drying Mondays instead, with the same overall effect
“Every single Monday was called Paint Dry Monday” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could only watch paint dry. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only watch paint dry.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”
Customers see it that way?
Depends who they define as “customers”, probably. The little people using the stuff aren’t customers, in their eyes.
Its HOW pe FIRMS operate.
Very interesting. I appreciate the additional information. Saying its for AI but moving it to overseas contractors instead of actually moving it to AI that is actually overseas contractors (like that one AI company that was outed as being 700 Indian developers) is honestly kinda funny. AI is enshittification given form, I suppose.
Because AI is Actualy Indians :)
and The indians ones might not be as good as the one in the states, so they are getting a much lower quality of product overall.
The AI part is that the drug riddled CEO asked AI leading questions. The AI wholeheartedly agreed the company should speed run late stage capitalism. What more confirmation is needed that AI is the future?
I mean they have added a chatbot to their website and I’m sure they have replaced overseas first line support in many products with chatbots as well to encourage their customers to give up on getting support (and ensure that the customers that prevails and get sent to a human coworker are sufficiently pissed off).
i was going to comment how this resembles PE firm tactics, thats probably his endgoal, and AI is just a convenient excuse.
This is the relevant context to this puff-piece, this should be stickied right at the top.
so they had to sell to ai customers? what an idiot
If this dickhead is so smart, why does he even need a staff? I’m sure he can go start a company all by himself with just AI to work for him.
I assume that’s the goal he’s aiming for. Wonder who will buy his stuff when it’s just CEOs and their AI still employed.
That will never happen unless CEOs can actually explain what they want.
“I am bad at managing my finances, and eventually need to get bailed out by the government, or end up next to the homeless guy I used to make fun of”.
- This guy.
Claims Adjuster.
This reads like a very weird AI circlejerk. They repeatedly mention that AI is the solution every company should adopt, but fail to provide a single example of succesful application. And I mean a how not a reult. They say ‘company X KPI are this % better thanks to AI’, but not how they applied it. Just talk of AI mindset, and ‘culture’ but I would have liked to understand what exactly it was used for (like agents, chatbots, automation of something in particular). It just reads like a lot of patting in the back and hot air so far, which is a pity because I would be interested in reading about real life cases of successful AI implementaiom
They say ‘company X KPI are this % better thanks to AI’
They asked an LLM for the KPIs and it helpfully made up the figures they wanted to see.
Which became a self fulfilling prophecy once they showed those awesome “results” to the investors.
Of course it’ll all come crashing down once the investors ask for a return on their investment and there are no more new investors to support the pyramid, but by that point someone (probably not the brainrotten CEOs, who are drinking their own coolaid) will be far away with the money in a Cayman Islands bank account…
I used to joke that the CEO of my former employer must subscribe to some magazine called “CEO Weekly” in which they must periodically mention, in a similar “no examples of usage, just KPIs” manner, webchat. She would always forget about it promptly and then random number of weeks later bug my boss again.
I told him if they want me to come up with how they can use webchat and be their solutions designer they need to double my salary. $60k USD was not enough for being a tier 3 systems admin, a fax and telephony specialist, and figuring out their use cases for them just to check a box that says “we have it!”
So business grinds to a halt? That’s crazy.
When all of this is over, if this ever ends, I want psychologists to study this AI obsession CEOs have now. I want to see how they can look at AI and insist that everyone be forced to use something that hinders them rather than help.
Greed and lack of empathy?
I heard someone mention that AI sycophathy is a result of renforcement learning techniques used (people rated honeyed words higher, no shock really).
People with big egos tend to like sycophants because they reenforce their narratives they have about themselves. Big egos also tend to take up the majority of cheif type roles, either because privlidge gives advantages to both and some because a big ego makes risks seem smaller them.
Its like we made the perfect machine to suck money from them. The sleezyst sales person with no ego. Just endless text telling you what you want to belive.
There is so much science to be done once the madness is over.
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Board/shareholders want company to do AI because everyone is doing AI so you can’t possibly be maxing shareholder value without doing enough AI
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CEO has to be able to show metrics about everyone doing AI
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???
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Not profit, that’s for sure, everyone downstream from the CEO suffers, long term profitability is hindered, but at least while the bubble is still ongoing, share prices are temporarily higher because AI
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Incredibly punchable face
So Mondays are days off?
Where can I sign up
